Footnote:
In: International Journal of Information, Business and Management, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2016
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments May 4, 2016 erstellt
Description:
The objectives of the study are to explore and enhance our understating about the construct of ‘thriving at work’. As it is not merely the sense of learning and vitality but also depicts an individual’s actions and behaviors. It is a very important construct as the positive organizational research shows that, thriving has ties to different behavioral outcomes, like: innovative work behavior, work engagement, health care cost, commitment, performance, productivity, resilience to change and employee well-being. During our study, we found lack of consensus in existing literature about the conceptualization of thriving at work as a construct; since, the existing research either conceptualizes it as a psychological state or as a behavioral aspect of human functioning. The conceptualization and incorporation of an additional ‘behavioral dimension’ of thriving along with the existing two dimensions, i.e. cognitive and affective, our study opens the doors for further research and provides guidance for developing a comprehensive and an objective measure of thriving which can gauge thriving in its true essence